But the authors emphasize that city policymakers do exert their influence, with tangible results.
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Until the deal is inked, however America may exert its best efforts behind the scenes.
Droukdel - isolated and marginalized - struggled to exert control over his southern commanders.
Mr. ROMNEY: No authorities of my church will ever exert influence on presidential decisions.
Exercise appears to exert similar effects on brain function by boosting insulin sensitivity and fighting inflammation.
Two unions, the teachers and prison guards, exert overwhelming political power in their own interest.
The fastest human sprinters already exert a force of about four times their weight.
Or will they expect one filmmaker to exert their vision over the entire trilogy?
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If they want, the Saudis can exert considerable influence over prices by reducing supply.
Government is resorting to its most potent tool, taxation, to exert control and exact tribute.
I, for one, never knew that a network could exert control over a game.
Those with the tragic view welcome Buffett to exert this type of free market influence.
As we all know, investment consultants exert tremendous influence in pension asset management decision-making.
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Rapidly changing currents exert a greater force on domain walls than do slowly changing ones.
They exert double purchasing power on both their own needs and those of their companies.
Mattingly wants his hitters to make the opposing pitchers work and exert excessive energy.
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The calm and orderly beauty, the exquisite rooms (formal yet lived in), exert a hushed fascination.
If they don't, we suspect other international organizations could exert their own pressure.
Efforts to exert more leverage will only alienate the providers that FDA relies on.
Nor is it clear whether he will continue to exert great influence on Kosovo's nationalists.
Regulators exert pressure via the board, whose non-executive members must brief them after every board meeting.
The Liberals were in a strong position to exert considerable influence, and yet achieved virtually nothing.
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Many of them are already doing more to exert their influence to achieve a low-carbon world.
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It needs Britain to exert some influence within the process that will define the new Europe.
Pakistan helped create the Taliban in the 1990s to try to exert some control over Afghanistan.
As ever, the Europeans would exert more moral influence if they acted in unison.
On legislation concerning criminal law, the courts and the judiciary, they often exert great influence.
Until the IPI deal is inked, however, the U.S. may exert its best efforts behind the scenes.
Neither do most of the debates which will, in practice, exert a heavy influence on the outcome.
England's innings had the necessary momentum and it was impossible for the spinners to exert any pressure.
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